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How to Build a Robust Creative Economy That Rewards Everyone—including Artists
How do we live in a robust culture? How do we produce a robust culture at a time when we are fracturing, polarized, and creative enterprise is an afterthought?
Virtual & Analog Art—Daniel DiGriz
We can have one foot in the world of visceral taste and touch and another foot in the digital world without having to split ourselves in half.
Clark Hulings—Archetype of the Independent Artist
Writer James D. Balestrieri: An artist really shouldnt care about being in the canon. They should do what they do, which is what Clark Hulings did: work at their work.
Stock Art Can Go to Hell: Corporate Art Without Compromise
I try to put everything, all of me, into the art. Melissa Whitakers workeven for collaborations with corporate clientsis always her own.
Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 2
In the second episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn Edlund weighs-in on how artists can shift their sales strategies and build an art business that will weather these tough times, as well as being
Virtualize Your Art Career: Part 1
Carolyn Edlund is the Sales & Events Director at the Clark Hulings Foundation, and our resident subject matter expert in Sales Strategy. In the first episode of this two-part podcast, Carolyn join
Selling Art in The New Normal: Marketplace, Native Communities, and Virtual Reality
The http://market.swaia.org/ (Virtual Edition of The Santa Fe Indian Market) offers an amazing atmosphere of delight and awe at a time when most of us are cooped up in our own worlds of soci
Build Your Own Future With Or Without The Establishment
Artist Ashley Longshore has never waited for industry gatekeepers to open doors for her: she’s a wildly successful, self-made entrepreneur. Owner of The Longshore Studio Gallery in New Orleans and two
Lockdown: Artists Double Down on Building Robust Businesses and Self-Help Networks
It’s a timely moment to be interviewing the team from CERF+, a leading nonprofit focused on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. Founded in 1985—by and for materials-based artists and craftsp
These Artists Graduated Training But are Entrepreneurs for Life
It was a total mind-shift this year. There is a market for what I want to do, and I am selling. There are buyers for the subject matter that I want to paint.